All 9 Uses of
vaccine
in
Oryx and Crake
- Polio vaccine.
p. 79..8vaccine = a substance that stimulate the production of antibodies to protect against a disease
- Before setting out, Crake had stuck a needle in Jimmy's arm — an all-purpose, short-term vaccine he'd cooked himself.
p. 287..6 *vaccine = a substance that stimulates the production of antibodies to protect against disease
- He'd shoot himself up with Crake's quicktime vaccine, and he had his own Corps bodyguard now, so it was quite safe.
p. 312..3vaccine = a substance that stimulate the production of antibodies to protect against a disease
- The antibody serum was in the pleeb vaccine.
p. 328..3
- I bet he's got the vaccine for this and he's gonna hold us up for an arm and a leg.
p. 338..8
- When are they going to have a vaccine?
p. 341..2
- Or did he know he wouldn't be able to withhold the formula for the vaccine, once the CorpSeCorps got to work on him?
p. 343..7
- Social disruption was maximized, and development of a vaccine effectively prevented.
p. 346..9
- Crake himself had developed a vaccine concurrently with the virus, but he had destroyed it prior to his assisted suicide death.
p. 346..9
Definition:
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(vaccine) a substance (such as weakened or dead a disease-causing microorganism) injected into a person or animal to stimulate the production of antibodies to protect against a disease